Re: [orca-list] Using Linux for everyday computing tasks and employment

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Friday 15 January 2010 03:02 AM, Peter Torpey wrote:
> I never got anywhere near that many messages in my Inbox using Thunderbird
> since I was only testing for system for a short while and not doing all of
> my work there.  So, I don't know if what you are talking about is an Orca
> issue or, more likely, some kind of memory limitation for memory/buffering
> management problem.
>
>    
Yes, seems to be some memory problem.

> I have heard that even sighted users have some issues with Open Office and
> trading word documents with other folks who use Microsoft Office.  They seem
> to lose some formatting in the translation from one to another.  I thought
> Open Office dealt more cleanly with these issues, but its hard to keep up
> with the Microsoft changing specs.
>
>    
Actually, it is not even that problem.  Sun had done very good work in 
the past and still continues.  Open office is the best thing and the way 
to get around the problems on mocrosoft office is to have same fonts in 
both the applications.
I never like softwares where specs keep changing.  It might also affect 
other things like accessibility.  I am the "slow and stedy wins the race 
" kind of a person and would not like to upgrade things often unless 
there is a very good reason to do so.


> Maybe someday I will switch to Linux full-time, but there are still some
> commercial applications which I use for musical editing (such as Cakewalk's
> Sonar and PG Music's Band-in-a-Box) on a Windows platform.
>
>    
I have a few apps to, But that is mostly for compiling my softwares for 
windows users and I use a vertual machine inside ubuntu to run windows.  
I find windows extremly difficult and feel that I might break some thing 
in there.

> > From my limited use of Linux, however, it is very snappy and fast to boot
> compared with Windows.
>    


I feel the no virus is a big insentive.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.